What are our transgender health options?
There are at least 1 m transgender person in the United States. However, Trans Healthcare is not included in most medical training programs. So what obstacles face the members of the Trans -Community when accessing high -quality care? And what does it cost you?
Listen to Finn’s advice on the transgender health care
Here you can find out how you can find and afford transgender healthcare
Finn Brigham is the director of project management at the Callen-Lorde Community Health Center, the world’s leading provider of LGBTQ Healthcare. Finn started his career at an HIV service organization and today has 20 years of experience as a non -profit executive who works on health justice. Finn has been with Callen-Lorde since 2011 and his team recently opened the fourth location of the clinic in Brooklyn, New York. In this episode of Queer Money®Finn accompanies us to explain what transgender healthcare makes different, and leads us through the three most important problems with which trans -persons have access to competent care. It contains the difference between transition costs and transgender healthcare in the broader sense and describes the limited resources that are available for operation for surgery, even if your health insurance covers you! Listen which subpopulations in the trans community have the greatest obstacles to care and find out what you can do to support the mission of Callen-Lorde and to promote health justice for the LGBTQ community.
Topics dealt with on transgender health care
How Finn came into the LGBTQ Healthcare area
- Work for the HIV service organization outside the college
- Align yourself with the mission and the values of Callen-Lorde
What does transgender healthcare do differently
- Only a few providers who were trained in the transgender supply
- The stigma that is connected to trans
- Most insurance companies exclude the transcodication
The common problems in the healthcare system emerge transgender people
- Discrimination = greatest barrier
- Lack of access to competent care
How the governments affect access to healthcare
- ACA prohibits discrimination based on gender
- New York expanded to all insurance
How Finn thinks about transition costs compared to transception
- Operation only one aspect of transgender health
- Should treat like any other disease
The best case scenario for the search for transitional care
- The insurance covers hormones and operations
- I still have to find a competent provider that takes out insurance
The worst-case scenario for the search for transitional care
- Pay for an operation out of the pocket
- Some trips from the country (can be risky)
What happens when gender markers conflict with sex -specific care
- Examples are prostate or gynecological studies
- Insurance company denies the care of non -agreement in the system
Anyone who is faced with the most urgent problems in healthcare in the Trans -Communities
- Transmen of color
- Aging trans -individuals
The enormous need for providers such as Callen-Lorde
- Available in some important U -Bahn areas, university health systems
- Need mostly available LGBTQ health centers
How Capital One supports the Mission Callen-Lorde
- Donate to youth programs, events
- Personnel volunteers in Callen-Lorde
What we can do to support the Mission Callen-Lorde
- The residents of New York fight against proposed changes to 340b
- Talk about the LGBTQ care (e.g. including admission forms)
- Promotion of training in LGBTQ Health